Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hillside; an acclivity; especially, any rise or slope of ground not too steep for cultivation or other use: as, a house built on a side-hill; a side-hill farm. The word is nearly equivalent to the Scotch brae.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun United States The side or slope of a hill; sloping ground; a descent.
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- noun US The side or
slope of ahill ; a slopingdescent .
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Examples
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The story was simple to him: good prospects that warranted the starting of the tunnel into the sidehill; the three months 'work and the getting short of money; the lay-off while the men went away and got jobs; then the return and a new stretch of work, with the "pay" ever luring and ever receding into the mountain, until, after years of hope, the men had given up and vanished.
Chapter IX 2010
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Tom had triumphantly brought home the buck and gleefully called it sidehill-salmon when it was served and eaten at Frederick's own table.
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They stuck flags in a long sidehill, outlining a brute of a track, including two steep run-ups and a low-grade grind up heavy Kentucky Bluegrass to the backside of the course.
Boulder Cup blends `cross with a touch of modern Americana 2010
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Where the sidehill touched the water he dug up a shovelful of dirt and put it into the gold-pan.
All Gold Canon 2010
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Every lie on an artificial mat is level; uphill, downhill, and sidehill lies require knowledge and practice you can't get indoors.
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Roberta's house sat on the steep sidehill like a rock.
Two of a Kind 2010
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Walking up the sidehill for a couple hundred yards we encountered a dead and rotted cow elk which we assume was the mother of the calf.
Weight a Minute 2008
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My nice drive had left me with an approach shot from a sidehill lie, and swinging with the ball well below my feet, I pushed a gap wedge into the greenside rough, just short.
The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009
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My nice drive had left me with an approach shot from a sidehill lie, and swinging with the ball well below my feet, I pushed a gap wedge into the greenside rough, just short.
The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009
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But also look closer for the subtle funnels that big bucks use like no other deer: a shallow swale or ditch, a line of darker timber, a narrow shelf along a sidehill.
Big Buck Boot Camp: Your Complete Guide to Better Whitetail Deer Hunting Skills 2007
slumry commented on the word sidehill
This seems to be a regionalism, although I am not sure I could identify the region it belongs to. ;-) It is part of my verbal patrimony.
July 14, 2007